"This is the 'Shadow', the 'City That Never Sleeps' investigation team, and we have arrived in the 'City That Never Sleeps'."

The man pulled out the communicator.

Although this thing has a retro shape, it can indeed be used to communicate through the "shallow grid network", so it is difficult to be blocked, and most importantly, it can be connected to the helmet of the shadow troops, so that the two sides on the battlefield in the heat of fire can also communicate without being affected.

"Roger, location has been turned on, 'connection permissions' are being activated." On the opposite side was an emotionless female voice, like a machine.

"Permission activation successful, now let's start narrating the details of the task."

"The City That Never Sleeps is the largest 'outer city' in central Asia, located at the junction of the 'Chinese Communist Republic' and the 'Jeres City-State', and is part of the Federation. It has been nearly 30 years since its establishment in 3997, and the lord of the castle was originally a high-ranking member of the 'Northern Soviet City-State', but later broke away from the Northern Soviet Union and established the City that never sleeps, and is a fanatic who tries to prove that humans can survive outside of the 'fortress city-state'. ”

"Not long ago, the outside world lost contact with the city that never sleeps, and then, the city that never sleeps was devastated, and the whole process took less than five minutes. It has been determined that it was caused by the 'Nexus Creatures', and it is speculated that one of the 'Seven' may have existed, but so far, we have never been exposed to the existence of the Rank One, and besides, the available information is not enough to deduce the 'Seven'. ”

"The goal of this mission is to explore the truth about the destruction of the city that never sleeps and search for survivors. However, according to the analysis, the possibility of a survivor is infinitely close to zero, so please make the first item the highest priority. ”

"Above."

"Understood." The shadows said.

"Okay, please check the 'program' for vulnerabilities, and ...... Prepare for destruction before falling into darkness......"

The man inserted the communicator into his waist, turned his head, and nodded to the dozens of people behind him.

There was a mechanical sound of ......"click,

The "Temora Battery", which is the name of the round button, and the "Destroyer Rifle", known as the "Infinite Electromagnetic", are the only weapons that can be mass-produced against the enemy.

Temola batteries are jointly developed by multiple city-states in the West, and only a few tens of grams of Temola batteries can release a super current that is enough to destroy everything within a radius of hundreds of kilometers, but it is also extremely stable, and will only be excited when using an equal or greater current stimulation.

Temora's name is in honor of the person who first proposed that "the limits of everything are opposite, just as the beginning of the universe was a dense singularity, but it gave birth to everything in the world, and all existence is borrowed from the universe itself, the universe is me, I am the universe", and began the experiment of "creating the 'universe'". It is not difficult to see that he was influenced by the ancient Buddhist and Taoist thoughts. So, people called him crazy at the time—and he did end up going mad—and set a fire to himself, the lab, and the entire hundred-story building, but thankfully there was no one else in the building at the time.

Eventually, a grave was built for him, and the grave was made of a few cubic meters of earth that had been cut out of the place where the building had collapsed.

Now, the soil has been migrated to the "city-state of Araga" in the Americas, and a huge memorial has been built to enshrine it: Ashes that changed the world.

Temora batteries were originally used as energy, and two or three thousand years have passed since the first industrial revolution, and people have broken through the 20 mark and ushered in the 21st scientific and technological revolution, also known as the "fourth energy revolution". After so many years of "scourge", coal, oil and gas, and even combustible ice have been in collectors' collections for thousands of years, although in the twelfth technological revolution there was the birth of artificial coal and artificial oil...... As a result, the victims of the scourge became trees, animals, stones, and so on, and thanks to these, people finally understood the fact that both living things and stones can be turned into crude oil.

And then...... Then the earth successfully lost weight. Next, they burned most of the moon and sucked half of Jupiter, really to thank these planets, no, with their help, the wreckage of Temorla's building was "enshrined".

Next, the eyes were turned to weapons. I have to say that human beings are really 'brave', even if the planet they live on is about to collapse, they still have to desperately wage war, divide the high and low, and live and die. Perhaps, is this the so-called "death must be vigorous"?

Hawkers, as the saying goes, "If you want two people to reconcile, let a third person get involved and make the two ...... together" In a sense, Luozi Creature has also become a peacemaker.

Now, back to the main text.

The group loaded the "ammunition" - let's call it ammunition, then took off the helmet and checked it over and over again, and then put it back on their heads.

Helmet, it's not life-saving, it's desperate. Now they are about to plug in the keys, ready to fight at any time.

They took a chip about the size of a thumb out of the bulge on the armor on his chest, and then unscrewed the knob on the forehead of the helmet one by one with a blank face, put the chip in, and screwed it back on. Coherent.

A bright blue window popped out of the side of the man's helmet, and rows of white numbers flashed quickly, then suddenly froze.

204713, a red number.

The man jerked his head.

A faint light was scattered from everyone's helmet, except for one person. Very close to him. It was a teenager.

"What's the matter with you!" The man slid along the way - he had been above the half-toppled wall.

"I ...... I don't know," the boy seemed to be about to cry, "it still worked last time......"

"Didn't you check before you left?" The man gritted his teeth.

The young man lowered his head, and his voice was very low: "I...... Forgot about ......."

"Forgot?! You said you forgot! The man seemed to be unable to suppress the anger in his heart, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably, and he accidentally saw a silver-white light not far from the young man. It is the light reflected by metal.

The man picked it up. It was an electric knife with a fuel pool at the hilt, and when opened, the scattered electrons ignited the spilled fuel, creating an ultra-high flame flame.

Enough to penetrate the chip.

The man looked at the boy, who was looking at him with a look of horror.

The man has understood everything.

He remembered the teenager. The assessment results that year were quite good, and he could have entered the 'light' army, but because of conflicts with several students of the same level, he was afraid of retaliation, so he chose to enter the 'shadow'. Soon he regretted it, because he couldn't endure hardship, he cried every day, asked to be discharged, and even said that he participated in the conscription of light and shadow in order to "be a majestic official, not to send him to death" or something, and was almost dragged to death by a certain irascible officer.

Although what he said is indeed a bit excessive, it is also true, there are many people in the 'light' who are trying to get ahead and be in the limelight, and the 'shadow' is indeed going to die.

The chip in the helmet is a weapon that will fall into darkness as long as it is used.

"Boom ......"

A tall wall suddenly rose in front of them, perhaps not a wall—it glowed blue, and numbers intertwined with each other.

There was a door in the wall, and the crimson light shone brightly, so in the light, it was as if countless portals were slowly opening.

This sudden turn of events stunned everyone for a moment, but they quickly reacted.

"Gathering Fire !!"

The man kicked the boy away and rushed up the wall, shouting loudly. At the same time, countless lights and shadows flashed out, surging in, some were hit by the annihilator gun, and their bodies were destroyed, but they still pounced forward with a face that was half rotten. They're not creatures—creatures, or rather, we might say they're not what we define them, and when they get hit, they just fly out of a few blue squares and split into fours, fours, and sixteens, until they're gone.

Want to kill them unless......

The man aimed at an approaching enemy and fired a shot into his lower abdomen. The creature exploded in an instant, and a blue quadrangular body fell to the ground, shattering.

Wrap core. The things that exist in the body of the sub-organism, like the human heart and brain, do not have a fixed location, and the location of each sub-organism is different.

But the translucent blue color of a normal creature can be seen as soon as you get closer, and you can see the core, a darker quadrangle.

"Damn." The man cursed, "Call the command, we have been attacked, the other party can open the 'door', there are definitely 'seven' here, we are preparing to try to find out his identity." ”

"Roger, do you need support?" It's clearly a problem, but what the other party says seems to be a declarative sentence.

It's not like "you need support," but ......

"There's no need." The man said so.

"Understood. The Federation will remember your sacrifices. ”

"The next task is to be handed over to the other teams." He put away the communicator.

"Prepare to dedicate yourself, shadows." The man said.

His voice was low, but it reached everyone's ears.

So, everyone stopped attacking and pressed their hands on both sides of their helmets without any hesitation. It was the only man who stared at the first portal.

"Request a connection." All said. And so all heard, a grandiose, majestic, god-like ...... No, that's the voice of the gods, it's the gods who belong to the gods, who are high up and rule another world, but he doesn't interfere with what his people do, and so, his people come to the world.

God! He gazed at the two worlds in the world of the network, and at the intersection with the material world, he laid a huge net that encompassed everything, connecting the thoughts of every network creature...... In addition to these intruders.

Once upon a time, there was a god like this......

Man steals the power of the gods and wants to surpass the gods.

"Connectivity allowed, lattice network." The gods were saying that the sounds that had never been heard before and that humans could not hear, but they really reached their minds and understood the meaning of each character.

Everyone was screaming, and the pain of the transformation of the flesh was like tearing the heart and lungs. They lost their eyes in an instant, leaving only a blue light in place of their eyeballs.

The confrontation between humans and the Luozi creatures only had a brief period of chaos in the early days, and it took them a very short time to find a way to break the situation, they stole the domain that belonged to the gods, and a part of the sanctuary belonging to the Luozi creatures.

The lattice network is a net cast by the legendary god of the network, and all the life of the network is connected to it. And humans, if they want to control this net and steal the power of the gods, they must pay a price.

The loss of their eyes was just the beginning, the safety in the helmet was opened by the chip, and the fragments of the core of the rope were once again connected to the lattice network under the will of the humans, and their bodies began to turn blue little by little.

"Rush!" The man shouted.

In this way, a strange scene appeared in the ruins.

The blue tide was surging, but a group of warriors charged towards the wave, and their bodies were inevitably contaminated with the tide.

They were just a survey team, with no powerful weapons, and they didn't even refuse support - they knew they were going to die here.

The creature finally rushed up.

The moment the two sides came into contact, blood splattered out, accompanied by a terrible scream.

It's a bloody fight, a monster-to-monster battle.

One by one, his teammates died, and the man was still standing still, he was not connected to the personality network because he had to see.

In the midst of the war, the man was hit, and he lost an arm, but he didn't say anything, he still stared at the portal.

Then, he saw the figure that appeared in the door......

"It's the third ......"

With the last of his strength, he roared. Yu Guang left the boy who had destroyed the chip, and was running backwards without his life.

This dog thing who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

Forget it, anyway...... None of us can survive.

"Roger." There was still a cold voice on the other side of the communication, "Go all the way." ”

The next moment, the man was torn apart by the rushing creature.

"Boom!" His wreckage exploded.

This is the "shadow".

They guard humanity like shadows, and will choose to die with their enemies in a certain situation.

They can connect to the network of networks and gain power, and this power will also corrode their minds, so that there is a bomb in everyone's heart.

Unlike the natural Nexus creatures, the core of a human who has become a Nexus creature is only formed in the heart, and this newborn core will detonate a bomb and completely destroy the human before it has completely turned into a monster.

The man in the door appeared, and it was a man with tan hair and flames billowing behind him.

Everything calms down.

The third, as I call him, sat on a high throne and looked in no direction. Behind him, there was an endless army of Ropes, among whom was a teenager, his eyes blank and as if he had no heart—indeed, a blue quad darker than his skin, slowly spinning around his left chest.